Malax (Maalahti in Finnish) is a municipality of Finland. The municipalities (kunta in Finnish, kommun in Swedish) represent the local level of self government in Finland and also act as the basic regional administrative units of the country. ...
It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothniaregion. The municipality has a population of 5,549 (2003) and covers an area of 1022.59 km² of which 508 km² is water. The population density is 10.8 inhabitants per km². Finland consists of 6 provinces (Finnish: läänit, Swedish: län), following a 1997 redesign that reduced their number from 12. ... The Province of Western Finland is a province of Finland. ... Ostrobothnia is one of Finlands 20 regions (fi: maakunta/sv: landskap). ... Finland is divided into 20 regions (maakunta/landskap in Finnish/Swedish). ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ...
The municipality is bilingual, with the majority (89 %) being Swedish and minority Finnish speakers.
According to expert interpretation of the indistinct text in the Malax communion book of 1667, Jåpa(r)s farm (Jåp=Jakob), is what the Klockars’ house was called in the 1600s.
In Malax Carl Rudolph was married twice, first to Beata Abrahamsdotter Tuuf and second, Anna Stina Mårtensdotter Malm.
Of the 15 farmer’s sons from Malax who went to school during the 1700s, there were three from Klockars, and one farmer’s son from Malax who received a university degree at Åbo in the 1700s was the above Wilhelm Granlund.
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